Albert-Laszlo Barabasi Quotes
The First Law: Performance drives success, but when performance can’t be measured, networks drive success.
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I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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I feel like we've already seen the burger truck, we've seen the lobster-roll truck. There's even healthy-food trucks now. But a big-thick-pizza truck? Come on, man. That'd be amazing.
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People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.
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Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
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The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game.
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I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm doing that because it's in my own self interest to do it. I think that's good for my other shareholders because they go along with me: If I do well for myself, then they do well for themselves.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.
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I am frequently attacked.
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Music leaves such a big impression. I always wondered, 'Man, if I grew up in Nashville, would I be making Country records now?' I honestly feel like Chicago had such a big impact on me.
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I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.
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Do I take care of my body and take conditioning seriously? Yes.
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My parents are deeply pious Hindus.
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Fame isn't happiness, but success and being respected in your craft is worth fighting for. You've got to work hard to be noticed.
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That rule about having to act one's age? I just don't buy it.
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The First Law: Performance drives success, but when performance can’t be measured, networks drive success.
